/etc/passwd

S.J. van Atteveldt wrote:
> I am building a LFS system and would like to get rid of the /etc
> directory. Does anyone know how to get glibc to accept that my
> /etc/passwd and /etc/group directories are somewhere else (without
> resorting to /etc/nsswitch.conf because of the /etc there).
> Can I do this by changing the sysconfdir ?
> How can I do this without editing the configure script? By running
> configure sysconfdir=/foo or will this be an option for make?
>> Bas.
Wow,
Do you understand all of the consequences of not having an /etc
directory? Every single application uses /etc in some manner.
JN